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THE  BIRD-WOMAN  OF  THE 
LEWIS  AND  CLARK  EXPEDITION 

A     SUPPLEMENTARY     READER     FOR 
FIRST    AND     SECOND     GRADES 


BY  KATHERINE  CHANDLER 

Author  of 
"  Habits  of  California  Plants  "  and  "  In  the.  Reign  of  Coyote :  Folk-Lore  from  the  Pacific ' 


SILVER.       BURDETT      AND       COMPANY 
NEW      YORK  BOSTON  CHICAGO 


BELCHEK 

Copyright,  1905, 

BY 

Silver,  Burdett  and  Compai»y 


To  my  friend 

GENEVRA  SISSON  SNEDDEN 

whose  interest  in  this  little  book 
has  encouraged  its  completion 


PREFACE. 

DECAUSE  children  invariably  ask  for  "more"  of  the 
stories  they  find  interesting,  this  little  book  of 
continuous  narrative  has  been  written.  Every  incident 
is  found  in  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Journals,  so  that  the 
child's  frequent  question,  "  Is  it  true?"  can  be  answered 
in  the  affirmative. 

The  vocabulary  consists  of  fewer  than  700  words. 
Over  half  of  these  are  found  in  popular  primers.  There- 
fore, the  child  should  have  no  difficulty  in  reading  this 
historical  story  after  completing  a  first  reader. 

The  illustrations  on  pages  13,  15,  29,  64,  and  the  last 
one  on  page  79,  are  redrawn  from  Catlin's  "  Letters  and 
Notes  on  the  Manners,  Customs,  and  Conditions  of  the 
North-American  Indians." 

My  acknowledgments  are  due  Miss  Lilian  Bridgman, 
of  San  Francisco,  for  help  in  arranging  the  vocabulary. 


Katherine    Chandlek. 


San  Francisco,  California. 
July  I,   1905. 


CONTENTS 


PACK 

The  Bird- Woman 9 

Who  the  White  Men  Were  .  10 
Who  the  White  Men  Were— 

Continued 12 

Why  Sacajawea  Went  West  .  14 

At  Fort  Mandan 16 

At  Fort  Mandan — Continued    .  18 

The  Black  Man 20 

Sacajawea's  Baby 22 

Sacajawea's  Baby — Continued   .  24 
Making  Friends  with  the  In- 
dians    25 

Making  Friends  with  the  In- 
dians— Continued 27 

Sacajawea  Saves  the  Captains' 

Goods 30 

Sacajawea's  River 31 

The  First  Sight  of  the  Rocky 

Mountains 33 

Sacajawea  is  III 35 

How  the  Indians  Hunted  Buf- 
falo    36 

The  Falls  of  the  Missouri    .  38 
The   Cache    Near   the    Falls 

OF  the  Missouri 40 

How   Sacajawea    Cured    Rat- 
tlesnake Bites 41 

Going  Around  the  Falls    .     .  43 

Grizzly  Bears 45 

Grizzly  Bears — Continued     .     .  47 

Grizzly  Bears — Continued     .     .  49 

At  the  Top  of  the  Falls  .     .  51 

The  Cloud-Burst 52 

At  the    Source  of  the    Mis- 
souri        54 

Sacajawea    Finds    Roots    and 

Seeds 57 


PAGE 

Sacajawea's  People     ....  60 

Sacajawea's  Brother  ....  62 
Sacajawea's  Brother — 

Continued 64 

Sacajawea's  People  Will 

Show  the  Way 66 

The  Indians  Try  to  Leave  the 

Whites 68 

The  Indians  Try  to  Leave  the 

Whites — Continued  ....  70 
Crossing  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains        72 

At  the  Columbia  River.  .  .  74 
How  the  Indians  Dried 

Salmon 76 

The  Wappatoo 78 

To  the  Pacific  Ocean     ...  80 

The  Pacific  Ocean 81 

Sacajawea  on  the  Ocean 

Beach 83 

The  Whale 86 

Sacajawea's  Belt 88 

At  Fort  Clatsop 90 

At  Fort  Clatsop — Continued    .  92 

The  Start  Home 94 

At  Camp  Chopunnish  ....  96 
At  Camp  Chopunnish — 

Continued 98 

Over  the  Rocky  Mountains 

Going  Home 100 

East  of  the  Rocky  Mountains' 

Again    , 102 

East  of  the  Rocky  Mountains 

Kgai^— Continued 104 

Sacajawea  Says  Good-Bye  to 

the  Soldiers 106 

The  Centennial 107 


THE    STATUE    OF    SACAJAWEA,    THE    BIRD-WOMAN,    UNVEILED    AT    THE 

LEWIS    AND    CLARK     CENTENNIAL,    IN    PORTLAND, 

OREGON,    IN    1905 


OF  THE     "^ 

"'  VERSITY 

OF 

THE   BIRD -WOMAN 

OF  THE 

LEWIS  AND  CLARK  EXPEDITION. 


a  go      hun  .dred      Sa  ca  ja  we  a      years 

THE  BIRD-WOMAN- 

The  Bird-Woman  was  an  Indian. 

She  showed  the  white  men  the  way  into 

the  West. 
There  were  no  roads  to  the  West  then. 
That  was  one  hundred  years  ago. 
This  Indian  woman  took  the  white  men 

across  streams. 
She  took  them  over  hills. 
She  took  them  through  bushes. 


JO      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

She  seemed  to  find  her  way  as  a  bird 

does. 
The  white  men  said,  *'She  goes  Hke  a 

bird. 
''We  will  call  her  the  Bird- Woman/' 
Her  Indian  name  was  Sacajawea. 


Clark 

A  mer  i  can 

Lew  Is 

met 

cap  tains 

part 

sol  diers 

twen  ty  nine 
Mis  sou  ri    Riv  er 

peo  pie 

WHO  THE  WHITE  MEN  WERE^ 

The  white    men    Sacajawea  went    with 

were  soldiers. 
There  were  twenty-nine  soldiers. 
There  were  two  captains. 
The  name  of  one  captain  was  Lewis. 
The  name  of  the  other  captain  was  Clark. 
They  were  American  soldiers. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       t  \ 


CAPTAIN    CLARK. 


CAPTAIN    LEWIS. 


They   carried    the    American   flag   into 

the  West. 
No  white  men  knew  about  that  part  of 

the  West  then. 
The  captains  wished  to  learn  all  about 

the  West. 
They   wished   to  tell  the  people  in  the 

East  about  it. 
They  had  been  going  West  a  long  time 

before  they  met  Sacajawea. 
They  had  rowed  up  the  Missouri  River. 
They  had  come  to  many  little  streams. 


J  2       The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

They  did    not  know  what   the   Indians 

called  these  streams. 
So  they  gave   them   new  names  for  the 

white  men. 


camp  Fourth  of  Ju  ly  Man  dan 

cheered  French  man  rest  ed 

ice  In  de  pend  ence  creek 

hus  band  Kan  sas  snow 

WHO  THE  WHITE  MEN  WERE— Continued, 

On  Fourth  of  July  they  named  one 
stream  Fourth  of  July  Creek. 

They  named  another  Independence 
Creek. 

We  still  call  this  stream  by  that  name. 

You  can  find  it  on  the  map  of  Kansas. 

On  Fourth  of  July  the  men  rested. 

The  soldier  who  woke  first  fired  a  gun. 

Then  they  all  woke  up  and  cheered  for 
the  Fourth  of  July. 


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At  night  they  fired  another  gun. 

Then   the   soldiers    danced    around    the 

camp  fire. 
After  a  time  the  ice  and  snow  would  not 

let  them  go  on. 
They  made  a  winter  camp 

near  the    Mandan    In- 
dians. 
Here    they    met    Sacaja- 

wea  and  her  husband. 
Her      husband      was     a 

Frenchman  who  knew 

a  little  about  the  West. 
Sacajawea  was  the  only  one  there  who 

had  been  to  the  far  West. 
Lewis  and   Clark  told   the    Frenchman 

they  would  pay  him  to  go  with  them. 
He  said  he  would  go. 
Then  he  and  Sacajawea  came  to  live  at 

the  soldiers'  camp. 


A    MANDAN    CHIEF 


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be  longed  roots  tribe 

mar  ried  Snake  twelve 

Rock  y  Moun  tains       thought       war 


WHY  SACAJAWEA  WENT  WEST. 


..^ 


Sacajawea  belonged  in  the 
West. 

Her  tribe  was  called  the  Snake 
Indians. 

They  lived  in  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains. 

Sacajawea  lived  in  the  Moun- 
tains until  she  was  twelve 
years  old. 

Then  her  tribe  went  to  war 
with  the  Mandans  from  the 
East. 


MANDAN    DRAWING    ON   A 


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One  day  Sacajawea  and  some  other  girls 

were  getting  roots. 
They  were  down  by   ^ 

a  stream. 
Some  M  andans  came 

upon  them. 
The  girls  ran  fast  to 

get  away.  buffalo  robe 

Sacajawea  ran  into  the  stream. 
An  Indian  caught  her. 
He  took  her  up  on  his  horse. 
He  carried  her  away  to  the  East,  to  the 

country  of  the  Mandans. 
There  she  married  the  Frenchman. 
There  the  Americans  found  her. 
She   was   glad  when   her  husband  said 

he   would   go  West   with   Lewis  and 

Clark. 
She  thought  she  would  see  her  own  tribe 

again. 


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an  i  mals 

coun  try- 

friends 

med  i  cine 

read  y 

chiefs 

froz  en 

plants 

wrote 

fort 

sweat 

house 

AT  FORT  MANDAN- 

The   soldiers  called   their  winter    camp 
Fort    Mandan.       They    had    a    hard 

winter  there. 
It    was    so    cold 
that  many  men 
were  ill. 
They  had  no  time 
to  be  ill 
They  had    to  work    to   be   ready  to  go 

West  when  Spring  opened. 
The  captains  wrote  in  their  books  about 
the   Indians  and    animals  and  plants 
they  had  seen. 
They  made    maps  of   the  country  they 
had  come  through. 


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They   had  long   talks   with   the    Indian 

chiefs. 
They  made  friends  with  the  Indians  by 

orivincT  them  medicine. 
An  Indian  boy  had  his  feet  frozen  near 

the  soldiers'  camp. 
The    captains    kept    him 

until  his  feet  were  well 

again.  ____  __ 

His  people  all  came  and     _^;*^4AM.\K)X^ 

thanked    the   captai ns.     ^'  ""'^^^^ "^  "^^ 

^  AN    INDIAN    SWEAT- 

The    Indians    told    each  "^^^"^ 

other    about    the    white    men's    medi- 
cine. 

They  said,  ''The  white  men's  medicine 
is  better  than  our  sweat-house." 

So   they  came  for    miles    to    the    white 
camp  to  get  the  medicine. 

They  gave  the  captains  food. 

They  wanted  to  be  friends  with  them. 


iS      The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


ar  rows 

din  ner 

hunt  ed 

mon  ey 

beads 

fiddle 

knives 

pie  ces 

blan  kets 

gal  Ions 

med  als 

stove 

AT  FORT  MAKDAN-Continued. 

The   soldiers  hunted    animals    for  food 

and  for  their  skins. 
One  soldier  cut  an  old  stove  into -pieces. 
The    Indians    wanted    these    pieces    to 

make  arrows  and  knives. 
They  would  give  eight  gallons  of  corn 

for  one  piece. 
The  Indians  did  not  know  what  money 

was. 
The  captains  did  not  carry  money  with 

them. 
They  took  flags  and  medals,  knives  and 

blankets,   looking-glasses    and    beads, 

and  many  other  things. 


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With    these   they  could  get   food    from 

the  Indians. 
On      Christmas     Day, 

1804,     the      soldiers 

put     the     American 

flag  up  over  the  fort. 
They  told  the  Indians 

not    to    come    to   see 

them  on  that  day. 
They   said    it    was    the 

best  day  of  their  year. 
It  was  a  cold  day,  with 

much  ice  and  snow. 
They  had  a  good  din- 
ner   and    after    dinner 

danced. 
On   New  Year's   Day,   1805,  they  fired 

off  all  their  guns. 
The  captains  let  the  soldiers  go  to  the 

Mandan  camp. 


lers 


20      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


They  took  their  fiddle  and 

danced  for  the  Indians. 
One    soldier    danced    on 

his     hands     with     his 

head  down. 
The    Indians    liked    this 

dancing  very  much. 
They   gave    the    soldiers 

some    corn    and    some 

skins. 


sur  prised     hair  paint  ed      stran  ger 

fin  ger  wa  ter     helped        York 


THE  BLACK  MAN- 

Captain  Clark  had  his  black  man,  York, 

with  him. 
The   Indians  were    always  surprised  to 

see  the  black  man. 


The  Bird-"Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      2t 

They  thought  he  was  stranger  than  the 

white  men. 
One    Mandan    chief   said,    ''This   is    a 

white  man  painted  black." 
He  wet  his  finger  and  tried  to  wash  the 

black  off  York's  skin. 
The  black  would  not  come  off. 
Then  York  took  off  his  hat. 
The  chief  had  not  seen  such  hair  before. 
Then  the  chief  said,  ''You  are  not  like 

a  white  man. 
"You  are  a  black  man." 
The    Indians    told    each    other    of   this 

black  man. 
They  came  from  far  to  see  him. 
York   helped    make   them   friends    with 

the  whites. 
The  captains  named  a  river  for  York. 
The  river  had  only  a  little  water  in  it. 
They  named  it  York's  Dry  River. 


22      The  Bird-'Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clarfc  Expedition 

bas  ket  laugh  weeks 

born  su  gar 

SACAJAWEA'S  BABY. 

At  Fort  Mandan,  Sacajawea  s  baby  boy 

was  born. 
He  was  only  eight  weeks  old  when  the 

white    men    began    to    go   to   the   far 

West. 
Sacajawea    made  a  basket  of  skins    for 

her  baby. 
She  put  it  on  her  back. 
The  baby  could  sleep  in  the  basket  as 

Sacajawea  walked. 
The  soldiers  liked  the  baby. 
They  gave  it  sugar. 
They  made  it  playthings  of  wood. 
They  danced  to  make  it  laugh. 
Indian  babies  do  not  laugh   much  and 

they  do  not  cry  much. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      23 

Once  in  the  West  the  baby  was  ill. 

Then  the  soldiers  camped  for  some  days. 

They  were  very  still. 

Captain  Lewis  gave  the  baby  medicine. 

This  made  the  baby  well  again. 

Then  the  men  laughed. 

They  said,  *'Let  us  sing  and  dance  for 

the  baby.'* 
The  baby  laughed  as  it    looked  at  the 

men. 


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April 
broke 


par  ty 
shoot 


shot 
warm 


SACAJAWEA'S  BABY— Continued. 


The  warm  April  sun  broke  up  the  ice 

in  the  Missouri  River. 
Then  the  party  got  Into  their  boats  and 

rowed  on  up  the  river. 
From  this  time  on,  Sacajawea  and  her 
baby  were  a  help  to  the  soldiers. 

When  the  Indians  saw 
a  woman  and  a  baby 
with  the  men,  they 
knew  it  was  not  a 
war  party. 
Indians  would  not  take 
a  woman  and  baby 
to  war. 
Only  men  go  to  war. 


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The  Indians  did  not  shoot  at  the  men. 
They  came  up  to  see  what  they  wanted. 
If  Sacajawea  had  not  been  there,  they 

would  have  shot  the  white  men. 
The  Indians  thought  that  all  strangers 

wanted  war. 
They    thought    this  until    the  strangers 

showed  that  they  were  friends. 


bare  foot  ed  gov  ered  prick  ly 

threw  cor  ners  pears 

same  moc  ca  sins        true 

MAKING   FRIENDS  WITH  THE  INDIANS* 

Sacajawea  showed  the  captains  how  to 
make  friends  with  the  Indians. 

The  Indians  on  the  upper  Missouri 
River  and  in  the  Rocky  Mountains 
showed  that  they  wanted  to  be  friends 
in  the  same  way. 


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When       they      saw 

strangers,      they 

stood   still  and 

talked  to  each  other. 
If  they  wished  to  befriends, 

the  chief  walked  out  ahead 

of  his  people. 
He  took  off  his  blanket. 
He    took    hold   of   it    by   two 

corners. 
He  threw  it  up  high. 
Then  he  put  it  on  the  ground. 
This  showed  that  he  was  putting  down 

a  skin  for  a  friend  to  sit  on. 

He    did    this    three 

times. 
Then    the    strangers 
came  up  to  him. 
They  sat  down  together.  , 
They  took  off  their  moccasins. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      27 

This    showed    that    they  wished    to    be 

true  friends. 
If  they  were  not  true  friends,  they  would 

go    barefooted    all    their 

days. 
They   thought    it    hard    to 

go  barefooted. 
The   ground   was    covered 

with  prickly  pears. 
The  prickly  pears  would  hurt  their  feet. 


great  pres  ents  smoked 

pipes  send  Wash  ing  ton 

MAKING  FRIENDS  WITH  THE  INDIANS-Continued. 

When  the  strangers  had  their  moccasins 
off,  they  smoked  some  pipes  together. 

Then  they  gave  each  other  presents. 

Then  they  told  each  other  why  they  had 
come  together. 


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Captain  Lewis  and  Captain  Clark  always 

told  the  Indians: 
*'We  have  come  from  the  Great  Father 

in  Washington. 
''  He  sends  you  these  presents. 
''He  wants  you  to  be  friends  with  the 

white  men. 
''He  wants  you  to  be  friends  with  the 

other  Indians. 
"When  you  all  are  friends,  the  men  can 

get  many  animals  and  the  women  can 

get  many  roots. 


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''The  Great   Father  will  send  you   out 

the  white  men's  goods  when  you  are 

all  friends/' 
The  Indians  always  said  to   Lewis  and 

Clark : 
''We  are  glad  to  hear   from  the  Great 

Father  in  Washington. 
"We  like  his  presents. 
"We    shall    be    glad    to   get    the   white 

men's  goods. 
"We  will  be  friends  with  all  men,  with 

Indians  and  with  white  men." 


30      The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


a  frald  com  pass 

straight  ened      turned 

rud  der 


canoe 
hit 


SACAJAWEA  SAVES  THE  CAPTAINS'  GOODS* 

Going   up   the    Missouri,    the   compass, 
the  books,  and  the  maps  were  in  one 
canoe. 
The   captains  had   the  compass  to  find 
the  West. 
One  day  a  big  wind  hit  this 
canoe  and  turned  it  nearly 
over. 
Sacajawea's  husband  was  at 

the  rudder. 
He  was  afraid  and  let  go. 
The    water    came     into    the 

canoe. 
The  maps  and  books  came 
up  to  the  top  of  the  water. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      31 


Sacajawea  saw  them  going  out  into  the 

river. 
She  took  the  compass  into  her  lap. 
She  caught  the  books. 
She  called  to  her  husband. 
He  took  the  rudder  again. 
He  straightened  the  boat  again. 
Then    Sacajawea  caught   the  maps  that 

were  on  top  of  the  river. 


Crook  ed 
hand  some 


Mon  ta  na 
saved 


wide 
yards 


SACAJAWEA'S  RIVER. 

As  the  maps  and  books  were  wet,  the 

soldiers  had  to 

camp  two  days. 
They     put     the 

maps  and   the 

bocks  and  the  compass  in  the  sun. 
When  these  were  dry,  they  went  on  again, 


32      The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

Ten  days  after,  they  came  to  a  river  that 

no  white  man  had  seen  before. 
Captain  Lewis  wrote  in  his  book,  ''It  is 

a    handsome     river    about    50    yards 

wide." 
They   did   not   know   the    Indian    name 

for  it. 
The   captains   were   so   glad    Sacajawea 

had     saved     their    things    that    they 

named  it  for  her. 
\They  said,  ''We  will  call  it  the  Sacajawea 

or  Bird-Woman's  River.' 
This  river  is  still  running. 
Look  on  a  map  of  Montana. 
Do  you  see  a  stream  named   "Crooked 

Creek?" 
That   is   the    stream    Lewis   and    Clark 

named  Sacajawea's  River. 
Which  do  you  think  is  the  prettier  name? 
Which  do  you  think  we  should  call  it? 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       33 

blew  elk  pleas  ure 

cross  plains  steep 

buf  fa  lo  mos  qui  tees  sight    - 


THE  FIRST  SIGHT  OF  THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS. 

Going  up  the  Missouri,  the  party  had  to 

drink  the  river  water. 
It  was  not  good  and  it  made  them  ill. 
The  sand  blew  in  their  eyes. 
The  mosquitoes  bit  them  all  the  time. 
But  still  the  soldiers  were  happy. 
They  carried  their  goods  in  boats. 
They  walked  when  they  wished  to. 
They    hunted    buffalo    and    elk    on    the 

plains  near  the  river. 
They  had  all  they  wanted  to  eat. 
One   day  in    May,   Captain   Lewis  was 

out  hunting. 
He  went  up  a  little  hill 


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Then   far  off  to  the  West   he  saw  the 

Rocky  Mountains  high  and  steep. 
Captain   Lewis  was  the  first  white  man 

to  see  these  mountains. 
He  wrote  in  his  book  that  he  felt  a  great 

pleasure  on  first  seeing  them. 
He  knew  they  would  be  very  hard  to  cross. 
They  were  all  white  with  snow. 
But  he  was  ready  to  go  on  so  as  to  get 

to  the  West. 
He  went  back  to  the  boats  and  told  the 

others  about  the  mountains. 
The  men  were  happy  and  worked  harder 

to  get  near  them. 


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grew  fell  hot  sul  phur 

worse 

SACAJAWEA  IS  ILL. 

Going  up  the  Missouri,  Sacajawea  fell 
ill. 

She  could  not  eat. 

She  grew  worse  each  day. 

Captain  Clark  gave  her  some  medi- 
cine. 

It  did  not  make  her  well. 

The  soldiers  had  to  camp  until  she  could 
go  on. 

They  could  not  go  on  without  her. 

They  wanted  her  with  them  to  make 
friends  with  her  tribe. 

One  day  the  soldiers  found  a  hot  sulphur 
spring. 

They  carried  Sacajawea  to  this  spring. 

The  water  made  her  well. 

In  a  week  she  could  go  on. 


36      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

bank  killed  hole  to  ward 

HOW  THE  INDIANS  HUNTED  BUFFALO. 


On  the  plains  of  the  Missouri  there  were 
many  buffaloes. 

Sacajawea  told  the  soldiers  how  the  In- 
dians hunted  them.. 

An  Indian  put  on  a  buffalo  skin. 

The  buffalo's  head  was  over  his  head. 

He  walked  out  to  where  the  buffaloes 
were  eating. 

He  stood  between  them  and  a  high  bank 
of  the  river. 

The  other  Indians  went  behind  the  buf- 
faloes. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       37 


The   buffaloes  ran    toward   the  man    in 

the  buffalo  skin. 
He  ran  fast  toward  the  riven 
Then  the  buffaloes  ran  fast  toward  the 

river. 
At    the   high  bank   the  man  ran  down 

and  hid  in  a  hole. 
The    buffaloes  came   so    fast    that    they 

could  not  stop  at  the  bank. 
They  fell  over  the  bank  on  to  the  rocks 

near  the  river. 
Many  were  killed. 
Then    the    Indians 

bank. 
They    skinned     the 

buffaloes. 
They  dried  the  meat. 
They  dried  the  skins 

to   make   blankets 

and  houses. 


came    around    the 


38       The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

June  won  der  ful  draw 

pic  ture  spray  write 

cache 

THE  FALLS  OF  THE   MISSOURL 

One  June  day  Captain  Lewis  was  walk- 
ing ahead  of  the  boats. 
He  heard  a  great  noise  up  the  River. 
He  pushed  on  fast. 
After  walking  seven  miles,  he  came  to 

the  great  Falls  of  the  Missouri. 
He  was  the  first  white  man  to  see  these 

Falls. 
He  sat  down  on  a  rock  and  watched  the 

water  dash  and  spray. 
He  tried  to  draw  a  picture  of  the  Falls. 
He  tried  to  write  about  it  in  his  book. 
But  he  said  it  was  so  wonderful  that  he 

could   not  draw  it  well  nor  picture  it 

in  words. 
When  the  men  came  up,  they  could  not 

take  their  boats  near  the  Falls. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       39 

The  Falls  are  very,  very  high. 

The    highest     fall     is    eighty-seven   feet 

high,  and  the  water  comes  down  with 

a  great  rush. 
So   the   soldiers   had   to  go  around   the 

Falls. 
That  was  a  long,  long  way. 
It  would  be  hard  to  carry  all  their  things 

around  the  Falls. 
The    captains   said,    ''We   will    make  a 

cache  here. 
''We   will   put   in   the   skins  and   plants 

and  maps. 
''We  can  get   them  all   again   when  we 

are  coming  home.'' 
The  soldiers  made  two  caches. 
In  these  they  hid  all  the  things  they  could 

do  without. 
Without  so  much  to  carry,  it  would  not 

be  so  hard  to  go  around  the  Falls. 


40      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

dried  dug  ring  sod 

bot  torn  branch  es     earth  sides 


THE  CACHE  NEAR  THE  FALLS  OF  THE  MISSOURL 

To  make  a  cache,  the  soldiers  made  a 

ring  on  the  ground. 
They  took  up  the  sod  inside  the  ring. 
They  dug  straight  down  for  a  foot. 
They  put  dried  branches  on  the  bottom 

and  at  the  sides  of  this  hole. 
They  put  dried  skins  over  the  branches. 
Then  they  put  their  goods  into  the  hole, 

or  cache. 
They  put  dried  skins  over  the  goods. 
Then  they  put  the  earth  in. 
Then  they  put  the  sod  on. 
The  ring  did  not  look  as  if  it  had  been 

dug  up. 
The   Indians  would    not    think   to   look 

there  for  goods. 


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bite  fresh  rat  tie  snakes 

cure  morn  ing       sev  en  teen 

beat 

HOW  SACAJAWEA  CURED  RATTLESNAKE  BITES. 


Near    the    Falls   of    the    Missouri,    the 

party  met  many  rattlesnakes. 
The  snakes  liked  to  lie  in  the  sun  dn  the 

river  banks. 
Some  times  they  went  up  trees  and  lay 

on  the  branches. 
One  night  Captain   Lewis  was  sleeping 

under  a  tree. 
In  the  morning   he  looked  up  through 

the  tree. 
He  saw  a  big  rattlesnake  on  a  branch. 
It  was  going  to  spring  at  him. 


42      The  Birct-Woman  of  the  Lewis  an<J  Qar k  Expeditfon 

He  caught  his  gun  and  killed  it. 

It  had  seventeen  rattles. 

Sometimes  the  soldiers  had  to  go  bare- 
footed. 

The  snakes  bit  their  bare  feet. 

Sacajawea  knew  how  to  cure  the  bite. 

She  took  a  root  she  called  the  rattle- 
snake root. 

She  beat  it  hard. 

She  opened  the  snake  bite. 

She  tied  the  root  on  it. 

She  put  fresh  root  on  two  times  a  day. 

It  cured  the  snake  bite. 

The  root  would  kill  a  man  if  he  should 
eat  it,  but  it  will  cure  a  snake  bite. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      43 

ax  les      even  hail  tongues 

bears       e  nough  knocked    wheels 

griz  zly    cot  ton  wood    mast  wil  low 

GOING  AROUND  THE  FALLS. 

The   party  had  to  go  up  a  high    hill  to 

get  around  the  Falls. 
It  would  take  too  long  to  carry  the  canoes 

on  their  backs. 
They  could  see  only  one  big  tree  on  the 

plains. 
It  was  a  Cottonwood. 
The  soldiers  cut  it  down. 
They  cut  wheels  and  tongues  from  it. 
The  Cottonwood  is  not  hard  enough  for 

axles. 
The  soldiers   cut  up  the  mast  of  their 

big  boat  for  axles. 
They  began  to  go  up  the  hill. 
In  a  little  time  the  axles  broke. 


44      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

They  put  in  willow  axles. 

Then  the  Cottonwood  tongues  broke. 

Then  the  men  had  to  carry  the  goods 
on  their  backs. 

It  was  very  hot. 

The  mosquitoes  and  blow-flies  bit  them 
all  the  time. 

The  prickly  pear  hurt  their  feet. 

It  hurt  them  even  through  their  mocca- 
sins. 

If  they  drank  water,  they  were  ill. 

One  day  it  hailed  hard. 

The  hail  knocked  some  of  the  men  down. 

At  night  the  grizzly  bears  took  their  food. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       45 

load  point  ed  large  safe 

mouth         roared  fierce  waist 

GRIZZLY  BEARS* 

After  many  hard  days,  they  got  all  the 

goods  to  the  top  of  the  Falls. 
The  party  saw  many  grizzly  bears  near 

the  Falls. 
They     were     the     first 

white  men  to  see  the 

grizzly  bear. 
They   found   it    a    very 

large  and  very  fierce 

bear. 
One  day  Captain  Lewis  was  out  hunting. 
He  had  killed  a  buffalo  for  dinner. 
He  turned  around  to  load  his  gun  again. 
He  saw  a  big  bear  coming  after  him. 
It  'was  only  twenty  feet  away. 
He  did  not  have  time  to  load  his  gun, 
There  was  no  tree  near. 


46      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

There  was  no  rock  near. 

The  river  bank  was  not  high. 

Captain  Lewis  ran  to  the  river. 

The  bear  ran  after  him  with  open  mouth. 

It  nearly  caught  him. 

Captain  Lewis  ran  into  the  river. 

He  turned  around  when  the  water  was 

up  to  his  waist. 
He  pointed  his  gun  at  the  bear. 
It  stopped  still. 
Then  it  roared  and  ran  away. 
Captain    Lewis   did  not   know  why  the 

bear  roared  and  ran,  but  he  was  glad 

to  be  safe. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      47 

body  de  feat  ed  shoul  der 

brave  ly  ing  angry 

GRIZZLY   BEARS— Continued. 

One  day  six  of  the  soldiers  saw  a  big 
bear  lying  on  a  little  hill  near  the 
river. 

The  six  soldiers  came  near  him. 

They  were  all  good  shots. 

Four  shot  at  him. 

Four  balls  went  into  his  body. 

He  jumped  up. 

He  ran  at  them  with  open  mouth. 

Then  the  two  other  men  fired. 

Their  balls  went  into  his  body,  too. 

One  ball  broke  his  shoulder. 

Still  he  ran  at  them. 

The  men  ran  to  the  river. 

Two  jumped  into  their  canoe. 

The  others  hid  in  the  willows. 


48       The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

They  loaded  their  guns  as  fast  as  they 
could. 

They  shot  him  again. 

The  shots  only  made  him  angry. 

He  came  very  near  two  of  the  men. 

They  threw  away  their  guns  and  jumped 
down  twenty  feet  into  the  river. 

The  bear  jumped  in  after  them. 

He  nearly  caught  the  last  one. 

Then  one  soldier  in  the  willows  shot 
the  bear  in  the  head. 

This  shot  killed  him. 

The  soldiers  pulled  the  bear  out  of  the 
river. 

They  found  eight  balls  in  him. 

They  took  his  skin  to  show  the  captains. 

They  said  he  was  a  brave  old  bear. 

They  named  a  creek  near-by  for  him. 

They  called  it  ''The  Brown- Bear- De- 
feated Creek.'' 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      49 


be  cause       fright  ened 
climb  kicked 

wait 

GRIZZLY  BEARS— Continued. 

One  day  a  grizzly  bear 
ran  after  a  soldier. 

The  soldier  tried  to 
shoot  the  bear. 

His  gun  would  not  go 
off. 

The  gun  was  wet  be- 
cause he  had  been 
in  the  river  all  day. 

He  ran  to  a  tree. 

He  got 
to  the 


tree 
just 
in 
time. 


50      The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

As  the  soldier  climbed,   he    kicked  the 

bear. 
The  grizzly  bear  can  not  climb  a  tree. 
This  grizzly  sat  at  the  foot  of  the  tree 

to  wait  until   the  soldier  would  come 

down. 
The  soldier  called  out  loud. 
Two  other  soldiers  heard  him. 
They  came  running  to  help  him. 
They  saw  the  man  in  the  tree. 
They  saw  the   bear  at   the   foot  of   the 

tree. 
They  shot   off   their  guns  and    made  a 

big  noise. 
The  grizzly  grew,  frightened. 
It  ran  away. 
Then  the  soldier  came  down  from  the 

tree. 
He  was  glad  that  his  friends  had  come 

to  his  help. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      5t 

a  ble  beans  su  et 

ba  con  dump  lings  played 

a  mused  them  selves  shake 


AT  THE  TOP  OF  THE  FALLS. 

After  the  men  had  carried  all  the  goods 
to  the  top  of  the  Falls,  they  made 
canoes  to  take  them  up  the  river. 

They  were  camping  at  the  top  of  the 
Falls  on  the    Fourth  of  July,    1805. 

Captain  Lewis  wrote  that  they  had  a 
good  dinner  that  day. 

He  said  they  had  as  good  as  if  they 
were  at  home. 

They  had  ''bacon,  beans,  buffalo  meat, 
and  suet  dumplings/' 

After  dinner  a  soldier  played  the  fiddle. 

Captain  Lewis  wrote  :  ''  Such  as  were 
able  to  shake  a  foot  amused  them- 
selves in  dancing  on  the  green/* 


52      The  Bifd-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


burst  fif  teen 

cloud  cloth 


ra  vine 


es  wave 


THE  CLOUD-BURST* 

One  day  Captain  Clark  took  Sacajawea 

and    her  husband    with    him  to  look 

over  the  top  of  the  Falls. 
Sacajawea  s  baby  was  in  his  basket  on 

her  back. 
Captain  Clark  saw  a  black  cloud. 
He  said,   ''It  will  rain  soon. 
''Let  us  go  into  that  ravine.'' 
They  sat  under  some  big  rocks. 
Sacajawea  took  off  the  baby's  basket  and 

put  it  at  her  feet. 
All  the  baby's  clothes  were  in  the  basket. 
Sacajawea  took  the  baby  in  her  lap. 
It  began  to  rain  a  little. 
The  rain  did  not  get  to  them. 
It  rained  harder. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qar fc  Expedition      53 

Then  the  cloud  burst  just  over  the  ravine. 
The  rain  and  hail  made  a  big  wave  in 

the  little  ravine. 
Captain  Clark  saw  the  wave  coming. 
He  jumped   up  and   caught  his  gun  in 

his  left  hand. 
With   his   right  hand   he  pushed  Saca- 

jawea  up  the  bank. 
The  wave  was  up  to  their  waists. 
They  ran   faster  and   got   to  the  top  of 

the  bank. 
Then  the  wave  was  fifteen  feet  high. 
It  made  a  big  noise  as  it  ran  down  the 

ravine. 
Soon   it  would    have  caught  them   and 

carried  them  over  the  Falls. 
It  did  carry  away  the  baby's  basket  and  his 

clothes,  and  Captain  Clark's  compass. 
The  next  day  a  soldier  found  the  com- 
pass in  the  mud. 


54      The  Bifd-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


a  live    be  stride     min  er  als    be  gin  ning 
ra  pid    nar  row      source  Co  lum  bia 

AT  THE  SOURCE  OF  THE  MISSOURI. 

When  the  canoes  were  ready,  the  party 

started  up  the  river  above  the  Falls. 
As  they  reached  the  mountains,  the  river 

grew  narrow. 
It  was  not  deep,  but  it  was  rapid. 
The  soldiers  had  to  pull  the  canoes  with 

ropes. 
The  river  did  not  run  straight. 
One  day  the  men   dragged    the  canoes 

twelve  miles. 
Then  they  were    only  four  miles    from 

where  they  had  started. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       55 

They  had  to  walk  in  the  river  all  day. 

Their  feet  were  cut  by  the  rocks. 

They  were  ill  from  being  wet  so 
much. 

It  was  hot  in  the  day  and  cold  at 
night. 

They  had  no  wood  but  willow. 

They  could  not  make  a  good  fire. 

But  they  had  enough  to  eat. 

Then  the  river  grew  very  narrow. 

The  canoes  could  not  go  up  it. 

The  soldiers  put  the  canoes  under  water 
with  rocks  in  them. 

They  made  another  cache. 

In  it  they  put  skins,  plants,  seeds,  min- 
erals, maps,  and  some  medicines. 

Captain  Lewis  and  some  men  went 
ahead. 

They  were  looking  for  Indians. 

They  wanted  to  buy  some  horses. 


56      The  Bif  d-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

After  a  time  the  river  grew  so  narrow 
that  a  soldier  put  one  foot  on  one 
bank  and  his  other  foot  on  the  other 
bank. 

Then  he  said,  ''Thank  God,  I  am  aHve 
to  bestride  the  mighty  Missouri/' 

Before  this,  people  did  not  know  where 
the  Missouri  began. 

A  little  way  off  was  the  beginning  of 
the  mighty  Columbia  River. 

The  soldiers  reached  this  place  in  Au- 
gust. 

Captain  Lewis  was  very  happy  as  he 
drank  some  cold  water  from  the  be- 
ginnings of  these  two  rivers. 

Captain  Clark  and  the  other  men  were 
coming  behind. 

Sacajawea  was  with  them. 

They  had  all  the  goods  and  walked 
slowly. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      57 


a  nise 

grease 

pound 

bread 

mixed 

pow  der 

hun  gry 

mush 

roast  ed 

tastes 

um  brel  la 

vamp 

SACAJAWEA  FINDS  ROOTS  AND  SEEDS* 

Far    up    on    the    Missouri,    Sacajawea 

knew    the    plants    that   were  good   to 

eat. 
The    captains    and    soldiers    were    glad 

that  she  did. 
They     had     only    a    little     corn     left, 

and    there    were    not    many    animals 

near. 
Sacajawea  told  Captain  Clark  all  about 

the  yamp    plant,    as    her   tribe    knew 

it. 
It  grew  in  wet  ground. 
It     had     one    stem     and     deeply     cut 

leaves. 


58      The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


INDIAN    CHILDREN    EATING    YAMP    MUSH. 

Its  stem  and  leaves  were  dark  green. 
It  had  an  umbrella  of  white  flowers  at 

the  top  of  the  stem. 
The    Indian  women  watched  the  yamp 

until  the  stem  dried  up. 
Then  they  dug  for  the  roots. 
The  yamp  root  is  white  and  hard. 
The  Indians  eat  it  fresh  or  dried. 
When  it   is  dry,  they  pound    it    into  a 

fine  white  powder. 
The    Indian    women     make    the    yamp 

powder  into  a  mush. 
Indian    children    like    yamp    mush    as 

much  as  white  children  like  candy. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      59 

It  tastes  like  our  anise  seed. 

The  soldiers  liked  the  yamp  mush  that 

Sacajawea  made. 
Sacajawea  also  made  a  sunflower  mush. 
She  roasted  sunflower  seeds. 
Then  she  pounded  them  into  a  powder 

and  made  a  mush  with  hot  water. 
She  made  a  good  drink  of  the  sunflower 

powder  and  cold  water. 
She   mi-xed    the    sunflower 

powder  with  bear  grease 

and    roasted     it    on    hot 

rocks. 
This    made    a    bread    the 

soldiers  liked  very  much. 
Without  Sacajawea  the  soldiers  would 

have  been  hungry. 
They  did  not  know  the  plants. 
Some  plants  would  kill  them. 
But  Sacajawea  knew  those  good  to  eat. 


60      The  Bifd-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

meet  sang  sucked 

own  short  taken 

SACAJAWEA^S  PEOPLE. 

One  day  near  the  head  of  the  Missouri, 

Sacajawea     stopped      short     as     she 

walked. 
She      looked 

hard  to  the 

West. 
She    saw    far  „„^,_,    _,   ^. 

away   some 

Indians  on  horseback. 
She  began  to  dance  and  jump. 
She  waved  her  arms. 
She  laughed  and  called  out. 
She  turned  to  Captain  Clark  and  sucked 

her  fingers. 
This   showed  that   these    Indians  were 

her  own  people. 
She  ran  ahead  to  meet  them. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      6t 

After  a  time  a  woman  from  the  Indians 

ran  out  to  meet  Sacajawea. 
When  they  came  together,  they  put  their 

arms  around  each  other. 
They  danced  together. 
They  cried  together. 
This     woman     had     been     Sacajawea's 

friend  from  the  time  when  they  were 

babies. 
She  had   been  taken  East  by  the  same 

Indians  that  took  Sacajawea. 
On   the   way   East   she  got  away  from 

these  Indians. 
She  found  her  way  home. 
She   had   been   afraid    she  would  never 

see  Sacajawea  again. 
Now  they  were  happy  to  meet. 
They  danced   and   sang  and   cried   and 

laughed  with  their  arms  around  each 

other. 


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broth  er  sent  tied 

sell  shells 


SACAJAWEA'S  BROTHER. 

The  party  went  with  Sacajawea's  people 
to  their  camp. 

Captain  Clark  was  taken  to  the  chief's 
house. 

The  house  was  made  of  a  ring  of  wil- 
lows. 

The  chief  put  his  arms  about  Captain 
Clark. 

He  made  him  sit  on  a  white  skin. 

He  tied  in  his  hair  six  shells. 

Each  one  then  took  off  his  moccasins. 

Then  they  smoked  without  talking. 

When  they  wanted  to  talk,  they  sent  for 
Sacajawea. 

She  came  into  the  house  and  sat 
down. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      63 

She  looked  at  the  chief. 

She  saw  that  he  was  her  brother. 

She  jumped  up  and  ran  to  him. 

She  threw  her  blanket  over  his  head. 

She  cried  aloud  in  joy. 

He  was  glad  to  see  her. 

He  did  not  cry  nor  jump. 

He  did   not  like  to  show   that  he  was 

glad. 
Sacajawea    told     him    about    the    white 

men. 
She  said  they  wanted  to  go  across  the 

Rocky   Mountains  to  the  Big  Water 

in  the  West. 
She  did   not  know  the  way  across  the 

mountains. 
The  Indians  could  help  them. 
They  could  sell  them  horses  and  show 

them  the  way  across  the  steep  moun- 
tain tops. 


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Ca  me  ah  wa  it  kind 

SACAJAWEA'S  BROTHER— Continued. 

Sacajawea  said  the  white  men  had  many 
things  the  Indians  would  Hke. 

If  they  found  a  good  way  over  the  moun- 
tains, the  white  men  would  send  these 
things  to  the  Indians  each  summer. 

Sacajawea  said  the  white  men  were  kind 
to  her  and  her  baby. 

If  they  had  not  taken  care  of  her  when 
she  was  ill,  she  would  not  have  seen 
her  brother  again. 

Her  brother  said  he  was  glad  that  the 
white  men  had  been  kind  to  her. 

He  would  help  them  over  the  moun- 
tains. 

He  would  talk  to  his  men  about  it. 

He  said  to  Captain  Clark:  ''You  have 
been  kind  to  Sacajawea. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  dark  Expedition       65 

''  I    am   your  friend    until   my   days   are 

over. 
''You  shall  own  my  house. 
''You  shall  sit  on  my  blanket. 
"You  shall  have  what  I  kill. 
"You  shall  bear  my  name. 
"  My   name   belonged   to  me   only,   but 

now  it  is  yours. 
"You  are  Cameahwait.'' 
After  that,  all  this  tribe  called  Captain 

Clark  "Cameahwait," 


A   MOUNTED   CROW   WARRIOR 


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Ah  hi  e!         death         oars         pleased 


bought 


nev  er         sad  dies 


SACAJAWEA'S  PEOPLE  WILL  SHOW  THE  WAY. 

Cameahwait  told  his  people  how  good 

the  white  men  were. 
He  told  them  what  good  things  they  had. 
He  said,  ''If  we  sell   them  horses  and 

take  them  over    the  mountains,   they 

can  get  back  soon. 
''No  goods  will  come  to  us  until  they 

go  back  to  their  home. 
"If  we  do  not  help  them,  they  cannot 

cross  the  mountains. 
''They  do  not  know  the  way. 


^::^ 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       67 

''They  cannot  carry  food  enough. 
''They  will  meet  death  in  the  mountains. 
"Then  we  shall  never  get  their  goods. 
"Shall  we  help  them,  my  brothers?'' 
And  the  people  said,    "Ah  hi  e!    Ah 

hi  e!'' 
That  means,  "We  are  pleased/' 
They  got  horses  to  carry  the  goods. 
They  could   not  get   enough    horses   to 

give  the  men  to  ride. 
The  captains  bought  a  horse  for  Saca- 

jawea  to  ride. 
The  soldiers  made  saddles  from  the  oars 

tied  together  with  pieces  of  skins. 
Then  they  started  up  the  steep  mountain. 


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heard  must  to-night  shpped 

THE  INDIANS  TRY  TO  LEAVE  THE  WHITES* 

When  they  were  in  the  mountain  tops, 
Sacajawea  overheard  some  Indians 
talking. 

They  said:  *'We  do  not  want  to  go 
across  the  mountains  with  the  whites. 

''We  want  to  go  down  to  the  plains  and 
hunt  buffalo. 

*'We  are  hungry  here. 

''On  the  plains  are  many  buffalo. 

"We  must  hunt  them  now  for  our  win- 
ter food. 

"We  do  not  care  for  the  white  men's 
goods. 

"Our  fathers  lived  without  their  goods. 

"We  can  live  without  them. 

"We  will  go  off  to-night  and  leave  them. 

"They  will  meet  death  in  the  mountains. 


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**In  the  Spring  we  can  come  back  and 

get  their  goods/' 
Sacajawea  went  to  Captain  Lewis. 
She  told  him  what  she  had  heard. 
He  called  the  chiefs  together. 
They  smoked  a  pipe  together. 


Sacajawea  slipped  a  piece  of  sugar  into 

Cameahwait's  hand. 
As  he  sucked  it,  she  said,  ''You  will  get 

this  good  thing  from  the  white  men  if 

you  are  friends  with  them." 


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gone  land  word 

keep  prom  ise  yes 

THE   INDIANS   TRY   TO   LEAVE   THE 
WHITES— Continued. 

Then    Captain    Lewis   said,    ''Are   you 

&________      men  of  your  word  ?'' 
The  Indians  said,  ''Yes/' 
He  said,  "Did  you  not  promise  to  carry 

our  goods  over  the  mountains?" 
The  Indians  said,  "Yes."  ^^ 

"Then,"  he  said,  "why  are  you 

going  to  leave  us  now  ? 
"If  you  had    not    promised,  we  would 

have  gone  back  down  the  Missouri. 
"Then  no  other  white  man  would  come 
to  your  land. 

"You  wish  the  whites  to 
'^^^      I        be  your  friends. 

"You  want  them  to  give 
you  goods. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       7i 

'*You  should  keep  your 

promise  to  them. 
'*  I  will  keep  my  prom- 
ise to  you. 
*'You  seem  afraid  to   keep  your  prom- 

ise. 
The  chiefs  said,  ''We  are  not  afraid. 
*' We  will  keep  our  promise.*' 
They  sent  out  word  to  all  their  men  to 

keep  their  promise. 
Captain  Lewis  thanked  Sacajawea. 
If  she  had  not  told   him,  the.  Indians 

would  have  gone  off  in  the  night. 
The    whites    would 

have  been  left  in 

the   steep    Rocky 

Mountains     with 

no  horses  and  no 

way     of     getting 

food. 


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stiff  Pa  cif  ic  O  cean 

melt  sharp  trip 

CROSSING  THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS. 

The  trip  across  the  mountains  was  very 

hard. 
The  mountain  tops  were  steep. 
There  was  no  road. 
The  ground  was  made  of  sharp  rocks. 
The  horses  shpped  and  fell  down. 
The  men's  feet  were  cut  and  black  and 

blue. 
It  rained  many  days  and  snowed  nights. 
They  had  no  houses. 
Before   they   could    start    on    each    day, 

they  had  to  melt   the  snow  off  their 

goods. 


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The  men  grew  stiff   from  the  wet  and 

the  cold. 
The  only  way  they  could  get  warm  was 

to  keep  on  walking. 
They  had  little  food. 
They  had  only  a  little  corn  when  they 

started  across  the  mountains. 
This  was  soon  gone. 
There  were  no  animals,  no  fish,  and  no 

roots  on  the  way. 
They  had  to  kill  their  horses. 
They  had  only  horsemeat  to  eat. 
The  soldiers  grew  sick. 
Some  could  hardly  stand. 
But  they  did  not  want  to  turn  back. 
They  knew  the   Indians  could  find  the 

way  down  to  the  Columbia  River. 
Then  they  could  get  to  the  Pacific  Ocean 

without  the  Indians. 
So  they  went  on. 


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sud  den  ly         fun         salm  on         watch 

AT  THE  COLUMBIA  RIVER. 

At  last  they  got  across  the  mountains 
and  down  on  the  Columbia  River. 

The  Indians  who  had  showed  them  the 
way  went  home  again. 

There  were  other  Indians  near  the  Co- 
lumbia. 

These  Indians  gave  the  men  salmon 
and  roots. 

They  ate  so  much  that  they  were  ill. 

The  captains  and  all  the  soldiers  were 
ill. 

But  they  started  to  make  canoes  to  ride 
down  the  Columbia. 

They  did  not  get  well. 

So  they  bought  some  dogs. 

They  cooked  the  dogs  and  ate  them. 

For  days  they  could  eat  only  dog. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition       75 

The  Indians  laughed  at  them  for  eating 

dog. 
They   said,    ''Dogs   are  good  to   watch 

the  camp. 
''They  are  not  good  to  eat. 
''We 'do  not  eat  them. 
^'What  poor  men  these  must  be  to  eat 

dog!'' 
Suddenly    the    captains    fired    off    their 

guns  and  a  soldier  played  the  fiddle. 
Then  the  Indians  stopped  laughing. 
They  had  never  heard  a  gun  before. 
Thev  had  never  before  heard  a  fiddle. 
They  thought  the  white   men   must  be 

wonderful  people   to   have    guns    and 

fiddles. 
They   wished   to  be   friends    with   such 

wonderful  people. 
So  they  did  not  make  fun  of  them  any 

more. 


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full 


grass 


stones 


HOW  THE  INDIANS  DRIED  SALMON* 

The   soldiers   left   their   horses   here   on 

the  Columbia  River. 
They  asked  the    Indians  to  keep  them 

until  they  should  come  back  from  the 

West. 
Then    they    started    down   the   river   in 

canoes. 


yi.^       /Jy\'^\.h. 


On  the  Columbia,  the  party  saw  some 
Indians  drying  salmon. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      77 

They  opened  the  fish. 

Then  they  put  it  in  the  sun. 

When  it  was  well  dried,  they  pounded 

it  to  powder  between  two  stones. 
Then  they  put  it  into  a  basket. 
The  basket  was  made  of  grass. 
It  had  dried  salmon  skin  inside. 
The    Indians    pounded    the    powdered 

salmon  down  hard  into  the  basket. 
When  a  basket  was  full,  they  put  dried 

salmon  skin  on  the  top. 
Then  the  basket  was  put  where  it  would 

keep  dry. 
The    salmon    powder    would    keep    for 

years. 
Only  one  tribe  of  Indians  knew  how  to 

make  it  well. 
The  other  tribes  bought  it  from  them. 
All  the  tribes  liked  it. 
The  white  men,  too,  liked  it. 


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gath  ered 
sum  mer 
pond 


ar  row  head 
wap  pa  to 
toes 


THE  WAPPATO. 

The  party  found  a  root  new  to  them  on 

the  lower  Columbia. 
The  Indians  called  it  wappato. 
Captain  Clark  called  it  arrowhead. 
The  wappato  grew  all  the  year. 
The  Indian  women  gathered  it. 
A   woman    carried  a    light    canoe   to  a 

pond. 
She  waded  Into  the  pond. 
She  put  the  canoe  on    the  water. 
With  her  toes  she  pulled  up  the  wappato 

from  the  bottom  of  the  pond. 


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The    woman    caught    It 

and  put  It  In  the  ca- 
noe. 
She   was   In    the   water 

many  hours,  summer 

and  winter. 
When  her  canoe  was  full,  she  put  It  on 

her  head  and  carried  It  home. 
She  roasted  the  wappato  on  hot  stones. 
It  tasted  very  good. 
The  soldiers  said  It  was   the  best   root 

they  had  tasted. 
The   Indian   women  used  to  put   some 

wappato   In   grass  baskets  and  sell  It 

to  the  tribes  up  the  river. 


FLATTENING   AN   INDIAN   BABY'S   HEAD 


80       The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


anx  lous 
break  Ing 


cheer  ful 
dis  tinct  ly 


view, 
shores 


TO  THE  PACIFIC  OCEAN, 

The  party  went  down  the 

Columbia  River  in  canoes. 
It  was  a  hard  trip. 
It  rained  all  the  time. 
Each  day  the  men  were  wet  to  the  skin. 
They  had  to  carry  their  goods   around 

some  rapids. 
They  could  not  be  very  cheerful. 
One  day  it  stopped  raining  for  a  little 

time. 
The  low  clouds  went  away. 
The  party  saw  that  the  river  was  very 

wide. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      8  J 

They  rowed  on. 

Then  they  saw  the  great  ocean  lying  in 
the  sun. 

They  became  very  happy. 

They  cheered  and  laughed  and  sang. 

They  rowed  on  very  fast. 

Captain  Lewis  wrote  in  his  book  : 

''Ocean  in  view!  O!  the  joy!  We  are 
in  view  of  the  Ocean,  this  great  Pacif- 
ic Ocean,  which  we  have  been  so  long 
anxious  to  see.'' 

''The  noise  made  by  the  waves  break- 
ing on  the  rocky  shores  may  be  heard 
distinctly.'' 


half        for  got         jour  ney         troub  les 

THE  PAOnC  OCEAN* 

The   party  saw  that  they  had  come  to 
the  end  of  their  journey. 


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They   had    come  4,134  miles   from   the 

mouth  of  the  Missouri  River. 
It  had  taken  them  a  year  and  a  half  to 

come. 
But  now  they  forgot  their  troubles. 
They   forgot   the   times   they   had   been 

hungry. 
They  forgot  their  cut  feet  and  their  black 

and  blue  backs. 
They  forgot  the  bears   and  the  snakes 

and  the  mosquitoes. 
They  saw  the  Pacific  Ocean  before  them. 
They  sang  because  they  were  the  first 

white  m.en  to  make  this  journey. 
They  did  not  care  for  the  troubles  going 

back. 
They  knew    that    they  could    go    home 

faster  than  they  had  come. 
And  they  sang  together,   ''The  Ocean! 

The  Ocean  !     O  joy !     O  joy ! '' 


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beach  blub  ber       line         thun  der 

Clat  sop       salt  whale      sand 

SACAJA^TEA  ON  THE  OCEAN  BEACH. 

The  party  made  a  winter  camp  at  the 

mouth  of  the  Columbia  River. 
They  called  it  Fort  Clatsop. 
The    Indians  near-by  were  the  Clatsop 

tribe.    . 
These    Indians    gave   the    whites    some 

whale  blubber. 
They    said    that    a    whale    was    on    the 

ocean  beach. 
Captain  Clark  and  some  men  got  ready 

to  go  to  see  it. 
Sacajawea  came  to    Captain  Clark  and 

said,  ''May  I  go,  too? 
''  I   have  come  over  the  mountains  with 

you   to   find   the  Great  Water  and   I 

have  not  been  to  it  yet. 


84      The  Bird- Worn  an  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

''  Now  I  would  see  the  Big  Animal  and 

the  Great  Water,  too." 
Captain  Clark  was  glad  to  have  her  go. 
He  wrote  in  his  book  that  this  was  the 

only  time  she  asked  for  anything. 
She    took    her    baby   on    her   back   and 

walked  with  Captain  Clark. 
When  she  got  near  the  ocean,  she  was 

afraid. 
The  noise  seemed  to  her  like  thunder. 
She  always  had  been  afraid  of  thunder. 
When  she  saw  the  waves,  she  was  afraid 

they  would  come  over  the  earth. 
She  had  never  before  seen  any  big  body 

of  water. 
She  had  seen  only  rivers  and  ponds. 
The  ocean  looked  very  big. 
She  would  not  go  near  the  waves. 
Then    Captain    Clark    showed    her   the 

high  water  line. 


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He  told  her  that  the  waves  would  not 
go  over  that  line. 

She  sat  down  on  the  sand  with  her  baby 
in  her  lap. 

She  watched  the  waves  a  long  time. 

Then  she  was  not  afraid. 

She  walked  out  to  the  waves. 

When  they  came  to  shore,  she  ran  be- 
fore them. 

She  let  them  come  over  her  feet. 

She  took  some  ocean  water  in  her  hand 
and  tasted  it. 

She  did  not  like  its  salt  taste. 

But  she  did  like  to  run  after  the  waves. 


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bags  oil  wood  en 

eight  y  pork  trough 

THE   WHALE, 

Captain  Clark  and  his  party  walked  all 

day  before  they   came   to   where   the 

whale  lay. 
The    waves    had    carried    it    up  on  the 

shore. 
It  was  a  very  big  animal. 
It  was  longer  than  most  houses. 
It  was  eighty  feet  long. 
The  Indians  were  cutting  it  up. 
They  put  the  meat  into  a  large  wooden 

trough. 
Then  they  put  hot  stones  into  the  trough. 
The  hot  stones  melted  out  the  oil. 
The  Indians  put  the  oil  into  skin  bags. 
They  used  it  to  eat  with  roots  and  mush. 
They  did  not  wish  to  sell  the  oil. 


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But  after  a  time,  they  did  sell  some  oil 

.    to  Captain  Clark. 

They  sold  him  some  blubber,  too. 

The  blubber  was  white  and  looked  like 

pork  fat. 
The  soldiers  cooked  some  and  ate  it. 
They  liked  it  very  much. 
Sacajawea  was  happy  to  see  the  whale. 
She  walked  all  around  it. 
She  made  her  baby  to  look  well  at  it. 
She   told  him   he   might  never  see  one 

again.   . 
The  baby  did  not   care  for  the  whale, 

but    he    laughed    because    Sacajawea 

laughed. 


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beau  ti  ful  robe  sor  ry 

belt  sea-ot  ter  wear 


SACAJAWEA'S   BELT. 

The  Clatsop  chief  came  to  Fort  Clatsop 

to  see  the  captains. 
He  had  on  a  robe  made  of 

two  sea-otter  skins. 
The   skins  were   the   most 
beautiful     the     captains 
had  yet  seen. 
They  wanted  the  chief  to 
sell  the  robe. 
He  did  not  want  to  sell  it,  as  sea-otters 

are  hard  to  get. 
They  said  they  would  give  him  anything 

they  had  for  it. 
Still  he  would  not  sell  it. 
Sacajawea  saw  him  looking  at  her  blue 
bead  belt. 


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She  had  made  this  belt  from  beads  Cap- 
tain Clark  had  given  her. 

She  used  to  wear  it  all  the  time. 

She  said  to  the  Clatsop  chief,  ''Will 
you  sell  the  robe  for  my  belt?" 

He  said,  ''Yes,  I  will  sell  it  for  the 
chief  beads." 

The  Indians  called  blue  beads  "chief 
beads." 

Sacajawea  thought  a  little  time. 

Then  she  gave  her  belt  to  him. 

He  put  it  around  his  neck. 

He  gave  her  his  sea-otter  robe. 

She  gave  it  to  Captain  Clark  for  a  pres- 
ent. 

She  was  sorry  to  give  up  her  belt. 

The  captains  had  no  more  blue  beads 
to  give  her  to  make  another. 

But  she  was  glad  to  give  Captain  Clark 
the  beautiful  sea-otter  skins. 


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boiled  crust  five  pairs 

burned  filled  kegs  treat 

AT   FORT   CLATSOP* 

At  Fort  Clatsop,  the  captains  wrote  in 
their  books. 

They  wrote  about  all  they  had  seen 
coming  to  the  Pacific. 

They  wrote  about  things  near  Fort 
Clatsop. 

They  made  maps  of  the  land  near  the 
Missouri  River,  in  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains, and  on  the  banks  of  the  Colum- 
bia. 

Some  of  the  men  hunted. 

They  made  the  skins  of  animals  into 
clothes  and  moccasins. 

They  made  between  three  and  four  hun- 
dred pairs  of  moccasins. 

They  saved  these  to  wear  on  the  way 
home. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      9t 


#  1 


Five  soldiers  were  sent  down  to  the  ocean 

beach  to  make  salt.      __ 
Each  had  a  big  kettle. '"' ^    '^^ 
They  filled  the  kettles 

with  ocean  water. 
They    burned    a    fire 

under     the    kettles 

day  and  night. 
In  time,  the  water  all  boiled  away. 
A  crust  of  salt  was  left  on  the  inside  of 

the  kettles. 
The    soldiers    gathered    this    salt    into 

wooden  kegs. 
It   took    seven  weeks  to   make    enough 

salt  for  their  journey  home. 
Captain  Lewis  wrote,  ''This  salt  was  a 

great  treat  to  many  of  the  party.'* 
He  liked  salt  very  much. 
Captain  Clark  wrote  that  he  did  not  care 

if  he  had  salt  or  not. 


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hand  ker  chief     un  der  wear     wea  sel 
mer  ry  wak  en  wel  come 

AT    FORT    CLATSOP— Continued. 

On  Christmas   Day,    1805,   the   soldiers 

got  up  without  making  any  noise. 
They  fired   their  guns   all   at   one  time 

to  waken  the  captains. 
Then  they  sang  an  old  Chrismas  song. 
Then  they  wished  the  captains   ''Merry 

Christmas.'' 
They  gave  each  other  presents. 
Captain  Clark  wrote  that  he  had  twelve 

weasel    tails,    some    underwear,    some 

moccasins,  and  an   Indian  blanket  for 

his  Christmas  presents. 
He  gave  a  handkerchief  or  some  little 

present  to  each  man. 
There    was    no    snow    and    no    ice,   but 

there  was  much  rain. 


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The  soldiers  had  to  stay  in  their  log  fort 

all  day. 
They  had  only  poor  elk,  poor  roots,  and 

some  bad  dried  salmon  for  dinner. 
But  they  were  cheerful. 
They  danced  and  sang  into  the  night. 
On    New  Years   Day,   they   fired   their 

guns  to  welcome  in  the  New  Year. 
They  had  more  to  eat   than  on  Christ- 
mas Day. 
The     captains     wrote,     ''  Our 

pleasure     to-day    is 

New   Years,    1807.      Then 

be  home.'' 


greatest 


thinking 


we 


about 
shall 


94       The  Bifd-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

game  or  der  let  ters  stol  en 

THE   START   HOME. 

In   March,  the  elk  left  the  woods  near 

Fort  Clatsop. 
The  soldiers   could    not   get 

enough  to  eat. 
The    captains    said,     '*It    is 

time  to  start  home.''  « 

They  bought  a  canoe  with  a 

soldier-coat  and  some  little  thinijs. 
They  took  another  canoe  from  the  Clat- 

sops  for  some  elk  meat  that   the    In- 
dians had  stolen. 
They  had  not   many  things  left  to  get 

food    and    horses    with    on     the    way 

home. 
But  their  guns  were  in  good  order. 
They  had  good  powder  and  balls. 
They  could  kill  game  on  the  way. 


The  Bird -Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qark  Expedition      95 

They   cut    up    their    big    flag    Into    five 

robes. 
They  could  sell  them  robes  for  food. 
The  captains  gave  the  Clatsops  letters 

to  give  to  any  white  men  who  should 

come  there. 
These  letters  told  about  the  party's  trip 

out  West. 
They  told    how   they  were   going  back 

East. 
The   Clatsops    promised    to   give   these 

letters    to    the    first    white    men    who 

should  come. 
Then   the  party   said   good-bye   to   the 

Clatsops. 
This  was  in  the  month  of  March. 
They  started  up  the    Columbia    River, 

singing. 
They  were   happy    because   they    were 

going  home. 


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awl  nee  dies       skeins 

Cho  pun  nish       ounce  thread 

knit  ting-pin  rib  bon         ver  mil  ion 

AT   CAMP   CHOPUNNISR 

On  the  way  up  the  Columbia,  the  sol- 
diers killed  game. 

They  gave  some  to  the  Indians  for  roots. 

They  came  to  the  foot  of  the  mountains 
in  May. 

There  was  too  much  snow  then  for  them 
to  cross. 

They  made  a  camp  near  the  Chopun- 
nish  Indians. 

They  called  it  Camp  Chopunnish. 

They  sent  out  to  get  the  horses  they  had 
left  when  camping  there  before. 

They  tried  to  get  enough  food  to  last 
them  over  the  mountains. 

Many  of  the  Indians  were  ill. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition      97 

Captain  Clark  gave  them  medicine. 

They  gave  him  food  and  horses  for  the 
medicine. 

Captain  Lewis  talked  with  the  Indian 
chiefs  all  day. 

They  promised  to  let  some  young  Indi- 
ans show  the  way  over  the  mountains. 

The  captains  gave  each  soldier  some  of 
their  goods  and  sent  him  out  to  get 
food. 

Captain  Lewis  wrote  that  each  man  had 
'*only  one  awl  and  one  knitting-pin, 
half  an  ounce  of  vermilion,  two  nee- 
dles, a  few  skeins  of  thread,  and  a  yard 
of  ribbon.'' 

Two  of  the  men  took  their  goods  with 
them  in  a  canoe. 

The  canoe  turned  over. 

They  lost  all  their  goods. 

They  just  saved  their  lives. 


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bot  ties         bush  els         pris  on  ers'  base 
box  es  but  tons  raft         ra  ces 


AT   CAMP    CHOPUNNISH— Continued^ 

Two  other  men  went  up  the  river  with 

their  goods  on  a  horse. 
The  horse  slipped  down  a  steep    bank 

into  the  riven 
He  got  safe  to  the  bank  across  the  river. 
An  Indian  made  him  swim  back  to  the 

two  soldiers. 
On  the  way,  most  of  the  goods  were  lost. 
The  paint  melted,  and  the  horse's  back 

was  all  red. 
The    Indians    on    the    bank    across  the 

river  saw  what  the  soldiers  wanted. 
They  loaded  some  roots  and  bread  on  a 

raft. 
They  tried  to  cross  to  the  soldiers. 
A  high  wind  sent  the  raft  on  a  rock. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Qar k  Expedition       99 

The  raft  turned  over. 

The  roots  and  bread  were  lost. 

Then  the  captains  and  men  felt  unhappy. 

They  cut  the  buttons  from  their  clothes. 

They  gathered   up   all   the   bottles   and 

medicine  boxes  they  had. 
With  these  things,  two  soldiers  went  out 

to  get  food. 
They    got    three    bushels   of   roots    and 

some  bread. 
The  other  men  hunted. 
They  dried  some  meat,  and  gave  some 

to  the  Indians  for  roots. 
They    became    good     friends    with    the 

Chopunnish  Indians. 
They  used  to  run  fast  races  together. 
Both    soldiers    and    Indians    could    run 

fast. 
The  soldiers  took  sides  and  played  pris- 
oners' base. 


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ear  ly  sec  ond  fold  ed 

means  Yo  me  kol  lick      la  ter 


OVER  THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS  GOING  HOME* 

The  party  wanted  to  start  over  the 
mountains  in  early  June. 

The  Indians  were  not  ready  to  go  with 
them  then. 

The  party  started  to  go  without  the  In- 
dians. 

They  could  not  find  food  for  the  horses. 

There  was  snow  all  over  the  ground. 

They  had  to  turn  back  and  camp  where 
there  was  grass. 

A  week  later  the  Indians  were  ready  to 
go  with  them. 

They  started  a  second  time. 

The  Indians  showed  them  the  way. 

They  found  food  for  the  horses  each 
night. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition     iOt 


The  trip  across  the  mountains  was  not 

so  hard   as  it   had  been  the  year  be- 
fore. 
Now   the   snow   covered    all    the    sharp 

rocks. 
The  snow  was  so  hard  that  the  horses 

could  walk  on  it. 
Now  they  had  enough  food. 
All  the  men  had  horses. 
They  went  many  miles  each 

day. 
All  were  happy. 
One  of   the    Indians    liked 

Captain    Lewis  so  much 

that  he  gave  him  his  name,   ''Yome- 

kollick.'' 
This  means  '*  White  Bear-skin  Folded." 
The  Indians  thought  their  names  were 

the  best  thing  they  could  give  to  any 

one. 


YOMEKOLLICK 


t02    The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

dif  fer  ent       di  vide        ser  vice        third 
good-bye         south  Yel  low  stone 

EAST  OF  THE  ROCKY  MOUNTAINS  AGAIN* 

Before  they  left  the  mountains,  the  cap- 
tains said : 
''We  will  divide  our  party. 
''Then  we  can  go  different  ways. 
"Then  we  shall  see  more  of  the  country 

east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.'' 
So  Captain  Lewis  and  nine  men  started 

in  a  straight  line  to  the  Falls  of  the 

Missouri. 
Captain  Clark  and  the  others  went  more 

to  the  South, 
Sacajawea  went  with  Captain  Clark. 
The  two  parties. promised  to  meet  again 

down  on  the  Missouri. 
They  said   good-bye   to   each    other 'on 

July  third. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition     J  03 

On  the  next  day,  Captain  Clark  wrote 

that  they  had  a  good  Fourth  of  July 

dinner. 
They  had  fat  deer  and  roots. 
Then  they  went  on  until  time  to  sleep. 
They  had  no  time  to  dance  now. 
They  were  going  home. 
Captain  Lewis  and  his  men  pushed  on 

all  day. 
He  did  not  write  that  they  thought  of 

the  Fourth  of  July. 
Captain   Clark  sent  ten  men  down  the 

Missouri    River    the    way    they    had 

come  West. 
He  went  with  Sacajawea  and  ten  other 

men  across  to  the  Yellowstone  River. 
Sacajawea  found  the  way  for  him. 
She  also  found  roots  good  to  eat. 
Captain   Clark   wrote    that    she   was   of 

*' great  service''  to  him. 


J 04     The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

EAST  OF  THE   ROCKY  MOUNTAINS 
AGAIN— Continued* 

Captain    Clark's    party   went   down    the 

Yellowstone    River    to    the    Missouri 

River. 
Here  they  met  two  white  men. 
These  were  the  first  white  men  besides 

themselves  that   they  had  seen  for  a 

year  and  four  months. 
They  were  glad  to  hear  news  from  the 

East. 
Soon   after  they  met   these   white  men, 

Captain  Lewis  and  [the  other  soldiers 

came  down  to  them. 
This  was  in  August. 
Captain  Lewis  had  been  shot  by  one  of 

his  best  men. 
The  man  thought  that  Captain    Lewis 

was  an  elk,  because  his  clothes  were 

brown. 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition     JOS 

The  man  was  very  sorry  for  having  shot 

him. 
Captain  Lewis 

soon  got  well. 
The  soldiers 

were  happy  to   be   together 

again. 
They  forgot  their  troubles.  the  white- 

,^j^^  ,  1  1\T'  •      FRONTED    GOOSE 

1  hey  went  down  the  Missouri,  as  drawn  by 

CAPTAIN  LEWIS 
Singing.  IN  mS/OUHNAL 

They  were  glad  they  had  gone  West. 

They  had  taken  the  country  for  the 
Americans. 

They  had  made  friends  with  the  In- 
dians. 

They  knew  where  food  could  be  found. 

They  knew  about  the  animals  and 
plants. 

Now  other  people  could  find  the  way 
from  the  maps  the  captains  had  made. 


J  06    The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 


doll 


ars 


vil  lage 


SACAJAWEA  SAYS   GOOD-BYE  TO 
THE   SOLDIERS. 

Sacajawea's   husband   would   not  go   to 

the  captains'  home. 
He  wanted  to  live  with  the  Mandans. 


A    MANDAN    EARTH    LODGE 


So   Sacajawea   had   to  say  good-bye   to 

the  soldiers. 
The    captains    gave    her    husband    five 

hundred  dollars. 
They     did     not    give    Sacajawea    any 

money. 


The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition     t07 

In  those  days,  people  did  not  think  of 

paying  women. 
All  the  party  were  sorry  to  leave  Saca- 

jawea  and  the  baby. 
Sacajawea  was  sorry  to  stay  behind. 
She    stood    on    the    bank    of    the    river 

watching  the  soldiers  as  long  as  she 

could  see  them. 
The  soldiers  went  down  the  Missouri  to 

its  mouth. 
When  they  saw  the  village  there,  they 

fired  off  all  their  guns. 
The  people  came  out  to  see  them  and 

cheered  that  they  were  home  again. 


V     Of  THE 


IVERSITY 

OF 


JOS     The  Bird- Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition 

Cen  ten  nial  Port  land         Or  e  gon 

for  est  ry  build  ing  not  ed 

fair  hon  or  stat  ue         sue  cess 

THE  CENTENNIAL. 

The  American  people  have  always  been 
glad  that  Lewis  and  Clark  made  this 
long,  hard  journey. 

That  was  just  one  hundred  years  ago. 

In  this  year  of  1905,  the  American 
people  are  holding  a  centennial  fair  in 
honor  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  journey. 

The  Fair  is  at  Portland,  Oregon,  be- 
cause Lewis  and  Clark  reached  the 
Pacific  Ocean  in  Oregon. 

At  the  Fair,  there  is  a  statue  of  Saca- 
jawea  and  her  baby. 

This  statue  is  put  there  because  Lewis 
and  Clark  wrote  in  their  books:  ''The 
wonderful  Bird  -  Woman  did  a  full 
man's  share  to  make   the  trip  a  sue- 


The  Bird-Woman  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition     109 

cess,  besides  taking  care  of  her  baby. 
She  was  one  of  the  best  of  mothers/' 
Some  day,  you  can  read  these  books  for 
yourself,  and  learn  more  about  Saca- 
jawea  and  Captains  Lewis  and  Clark. 


THE    FORESTRY    BUILDING,    LEWIS    AND    CLARK    CENTENNIAL 

The  forestry  building  is  made  from  the 
large  trees  for  which  Oregon  is  noted. 

Fort  Clatsop  was  built  from  the  large 
trees  of  Oregon,  too,  but  the  soldiers 
did  not  know  how  to  make  such  a  fine 
building  as  this  one  hundred  years  ago. 


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